Karl Wohlmuth

Karl Wohlmuth (born December 8, 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian economist .

Life

Karl Wohlmuth studied from 1960 to 1964 at the Vienna University of World Trade (today: Vienna University of Economics and Business ). In the following years he was a research fellow in Vienna, then research assistant and lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University Linz ; the doctorate to Dr. rer. comm. took place in 1967. In 1970 Wohlmuth followed his academic teacher Hajo Riese to the Free University of Berlin . Karl Wohlmuth became an assistant professor there. A short time later he was offered a call to the University of Bremen , which had just been founded as a reform university , where he has been professor for the comparison of economic systems since 1971.

Services

At the end of the 20th century, Karl Wohlmuth significantly influenced German and international economic research on Africa through numerous publications. He was the initiator of the Research Group on African Development Perspectives - a group that at the end of the 20th / beginning of the 21st century, among others, the development economists Hans-Heinrich Bass , Jutta Franz, Elke Grawert, Dirk Hansohm , Robert Kappel , Tobias Knedlik, Mareike Meyn and Peter Oesterdieckhoff belonged ("Bremen School of Development Economics "). Karl Wohlmuth is editor-in-chief of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook, which has been published annually since 1989. He worked as a policy advisor for the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ).

Fonts

African Development Perspectives Yearbook . Lit-Verlag, Münster and Berlin since 1989, ISBN 3-923024-29-0 .

literature

Hans-Heinrich Bass et al. (Ed.): Economic systems in the changing world economy. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Professor Dr. Karl Wohlmuth . Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-148410-0 .

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Wohlmuth in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Heinrich Bass et al. (Ed.): Economic systems in the changing world economy. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Professor Dr. Karl Wohlmuth . Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. I to IV (foreword by the editors).
↑ Bremen models against world hunger. Economists from the Hanseatic city develop guidelines that aim to make agriculture in Africa sustainable . (PDF; 445 kB) In: Weser Kurier , June 3, 2011, p. 15.

personal data
SURNAME	Wohlmuth, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Hans-Heinrich Bass et al. (Ed.): Economic systems in the changing world economy. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Professor Dr. Karl Wohlmuth . Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. I to IV (foreword by the editors).

[2] Bremen models against world hunger. Economists from the Hanseatic city develop guidelines that aim to make agriculture in Africa sustainable . (PDF; 445 kB) In: Weser Kurier , June 3, 2011, p. 15.